Ballistic missiles do not fulfill a comparable role in Russia's defence doctrine. Not even close.
Their use by Iran would not be intended to flatten nor to capture towns. But to serve as an area denial tool by neutralizing enemy air power.
It will prevent the enemy from employing its main offensive weapon to the desired effect.
"Turks" who considered themselves heirs to and continuators of the ancient Iranian imperial tradition.
An excerpt from the
Shahname commissioned by Safavid ruler Shah Tahmaseb:
To those who don't know, the
Shahname (
Book of Kings) by 10th century Iranian poet Ferdosi, is considered the national Iranian epos. There is, literally, nothing Turkic about it.
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